New Year, Healthier New You!
If your new year’s resolution is to improve your lifestyle, health, and body, here are a few tips to get you headed in the right direction.
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Coping Strategies
Stay Positive SCW Parents!
As parents, changing how you think from negative to positive can keep your Sickle Cell Warrior emotionally strong. Here are a few tips to get you started, from one warrior mom to another.
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A Mother’s Love
As a parent with a child that has sickle cell, how far would you go to cure your child? Read about one mother’s journey, her struggle, and sacrifices–all to protect and support her beloved son.
How to Help those Affected by Sickle Cell Disease
Friends, partners, and family with a sickle cell warrior often wonder, what can they do to help? Here are a few tips to set you on the right path.
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Sickle Cell and Memory Problems
This entry is long, but so useful if you are having problems with your memory, and getting tasks accomplished at work, school, or home because of sickle cell.
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Sickle Cell Stress and the Holidays
Sickle cell episodes are often triggered during the holidays. James explains why this happens and gives some tips on how to avoid a holiday hospitalization.
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SC and Pica
Pica is the craving and ingestion of non-food substances like chalk, sand, ice. SC patients are prone to Pica. Learn more…
Fighting For Your Rights in the Hospital
SCW expounds on what to do when you have been treated badly by a nurse or doctor in the hospital. Know your rights and take control of the situation!
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Are You a Victim or Warrior?
It’s so easy to sit back, complain, and expect things to change, but if we are not a part of the change, solution, and activism; then we are a part of the problem. Tamera eloquently addresses several issues plaguing the sickle cell community.
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Sickle Cell Art
On the SCW FB page, one of the warriors posted this photo, and it was so creative that I had to post it. This just reminds me how talented, passionate, and creative sickle cell warriors are. Adreenah has given me permission to share this on the website.